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<div>Marking city, town etc is not necessary in UK because Geocoders like nominatim can figure those out using afministrative boundaries.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What is important is the housenumber and street:<br></div><div>"addr:housenumber=99<br></div><div>addr:street= Postal Street"<br></div><div><br></div><div>And postcode:<br></div><div>"addr:postcode=XY9 7GY"<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note, all postcodes are available freely:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://raggedred.net/codepoint/">https://raggedred.net/codepoint/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>IpswichMapper</div><div>-- <br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>20 Dec 2020, 12:45 by Dave.Abbott@pandaemonia.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to make sure I tag addresses correctly. I am currently trying to understand how to map in my area.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The postal addresses are like:<br></div><div><br></div><div>99 Postal Street<br></div><div>Smalltown<br></div><div>Largertown<br></div><div>West Yorks XY9 7GY<br></div><div><br></div><div>Smalltown is geographically separate to Largertown, which however is the Postal Town. Omitting Smalltown from the address is probably correct postally-speaking, but local residents would object as Smalltown is seen as completely separate to other places under the same Postal Town.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Currently tagging as -<br></div><div>addr:housenumber=99<br></div><div>addr:street=Postal Street<br></div><div>addr:city=Smalltown, Largertown<br></div><div><br></div><div>But I am pretty sure this is wrong.<br></div><div><br></div><div>There is a page at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is in use. If correct I would be tagging as -<br></div><div><br></div><div>addr:housenumber=99<br></div><div>addr:street=Postal Street<br></div><div>addr:town=Smalltown<br></div><div>addr:city=Largertown<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hoping someone can advise me as to the correct way to tag for the UK...<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dave Abbott (OSM user DaveyPorcy)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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